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Bug#584297: marked as done (Installation fails if usibng an existing /var partition)

Your message dated Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:38:31 +0200
with message-id <201307171139.02755.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line dealing with old partman related bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #584297,
regarding Installation fails if usibng an existing /var partition
to be marked as done.

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Package: other (installation)
Version: lenny/squeeze/...
I tried to reinstall my whole system keeping my older /var and /home partitions where there was some data I'd liked to keep. When "installing the base system", deboostrap crashed (at "chroot /target dpkg --install base_files"), the error console stating that there was no user "root" in stateoverride file. 

Using another console, "whoami" returned an "unknown user ID 0".
When I tried the reinstallation *without* mounting the /var and /home partition immediately (and doing it by hand later), things worked smoothly. This bug was present with both the netinst and buisnesscard installer in both lenny and squeeze.
My guess is that /var kept info about the existence of root, hence debootstrap did not recreate the user thus causing troubles later... 


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Hypocoristiquement,
Jym.

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reassign 693107 partman-auto
reassign 670702 partman-auto
reassign 615074 lvm2
reassign 676172 partman
severity 691046 wishlist
retitle 644430 document the need for a bios boot partition when using GPT
forcemerge 644430 691046 
reassign 691046 release-notes
reassign 683747 partman-lvm
reassign 671879 partman-base
thanks

Hi,

thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated.

I read through all the ("partman" related) bugs mentioned here and am closing 
them now as
- they (finally) indicated success and/or
- I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in 
Wheezy and/or
- they only contained very little information and/or
- they were (very) old.

If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply or just file a new one - 
thats often better, as the bug log will be more clear.


cheers,
        Holger

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